The world of computing may well be moving back towards this strategy currently. The rise of single-static-binary runtimes (Go, Rust, new Java) and container run

The world of computing may well be moving back towards this strategy currently. The rise of single-static-binary runtimes (Go, Rust, new Java) and container runtimes (ad hoc, informally-specified static linking for sets of programs) seems to indicate that static linking is far from being consigned to the conceptual rubbish heap.